The camera is a Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 (but any USB webcam will do). The software is a combination of Photo Booth (a MacOSX built-in tool) and a motley collection of cronjobs, shell scripts and applescripts that I cobbled together.

The videos are made with another set of scripts using Imagemagick and Quicktime Pro.

As I said, I'm happy to share the scripts with someone who has the hardware and is willing to keep snapping pictures.

Dear HTLGZ, we are so sorry to hear you had to put up with noisy neighbors and/or noisy ground zero construction for our ground zero voyeurism benefit. We hope you found a better place with even more doormen.WTAW

Dear WTAW, thank you for the kind comments. You have hit the nail on the head, it was indeed the lack of doormen that occasioned my move. My current building only has five -- can you imagine trying to live like that? Barbaric!However, I must now rely on your neighbors to feed my construction-blog-fetish.

Hi!I am from Brazil, and almost every day i watched your photos. Thanks for your effort to bring us a view from the entire site. Since 9/11 I hope to see the fantastic skyline of manhattan bring to life again.

What about is this blog?

THIS WEBSITE IS DEFUNCT

My apartment overlooks ground zero, the site of the former World Trade Center in New York. Construction on a new tower is in progress. Every day, a photograph of the site is automatically taken and posted here. The pictures are combined into a stop-motion video every few months.